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THE 



STELLAR LAWS 



GOVERNING THE 



REPRODUCTION 



OF THE 



HUMAN RACE 

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BY P. A^GRAVES, ASTROLOGER, 

SALEM, OREGON. 

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PRICE 25 CENTS. 



SALEM, OREGON: 

L. R. STINSON & CO., PRINTERS. 

1885. 



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THE 



STELLAR LAWS 



GOVERNING THE 



REPRODUCTION 



OF THE 



HUMAN RACE 



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BY P. A. GRAVES, ASTROLOGER, 
SALEM, OREGON. 



PRICE 25 CENTS. 



SALEM, OREGON: 

L, R. STJNSON & CO., PRINTERS. 

1885, 




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(j);HIS Work is the result of six years study, prac- 



ep tice and close observation of the Stellar influen- 
ces on the human family, and is sent forth as a liv- 
ing evidence of what may be accomplished at home, 
in the way of moral and social reformation by a pre- 
observation of the planetary positions at the time of 
the birth of a child. With these few remarks the 
author submits this little pamphlet to the kindly 
consideration of an intelligent progressive public. 



THE LAWS 

GOYERBIBG*HUMAN*]^EPRODOGTIOB, 

The science of reproduction is a deep and interest- 
ing subject, to understand it in part is a knowledge 
of no little worth, but to know all of its secrets is, in- 
deed, a wonderful gift. 

The ignorance of this economy in nature has cost 
the world more suffering than all other evils com- 
bined ; for without this knowledge human imperfec- 
tions and mental deformities are inevitable. But I 
now entertain hopes of seeing the world in possession 
of a clearer understanding of these laws than was 
ever before known ; for the time has fully come when 
the propagation of lewd, vicious and insane human 
beings should cease. It always has been the case 
that children were the products of passion and 
chance and unless the more intelligent class of peo- 
ple set about to change the time honored custom it 
will so continue ; but I hope the time will speedily 
come when parents will take at least as much pains 
to produce children free from the common deform- 
ities of life as they now do to keep the blood of their 
stock pure and make their business a success. 

When parents learn that they can bring children 
into existence all of whom will be self-supporting 






and make useful members of society then will they 
turn more of their attention to the rearing of "tho- 
roughbred boys and less to thoroughbred bulls,'' 
' This can be done by observing the stellar laws; 
but in no other way. Had these laws been observed 
for the last century the temperance crusade move- 
ment would never have been known and common 
drinking would not now be practiced among the 
leading men of our country and drunkenness would 
be less frequent and temperance fanatics preying 
upon the credulity of the people would be compelled 
to seek other fields to earn their " bread and butter.'.' 

That there ^ould be less demand for police courts 
asylums, poor houses and penitentiaries. 

It may seem unreasonable that the parents of the 
unfortunate ones, thronging these places, are alone 
responsible for their mental and moral deformities 
yet they are for this reason; that they produced 
them under the laws of evil mental formation, which 
need not have been done. If this were not true then 
all the brothers and sisters of these inmates would 
be insane or vicious. 

The family discrepancies are caused by the differ- 
ent constitutional conditions of parents during the 
period of gestation and these conditions are governed 
by the stellar influences at work on them at this par- 
ticular time. 



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The local and relative positions of the planets are 
changing continually, therefore, the mental and 
physical conditions of people are changing in the 
same ratio. 

The Judge on his bench or senator in congress is 
entitled to just the same praise for arriving at his 
station in life as the lunatic is for landing in the 
asylum and no more. While they may be styled 
self-made men the primary causes in both cases are 
to be found in the stellar influence at work on the 
parents before and at the time of birth. Had the 
parent understood, these causes and governed the 
time of birth to suit these stellar laws then they 
should receive praise or blame for the condition of 
their children. 

The original condition of the parents have a great 
deal to do with the mental and physical formation 
of their children ; but the strength of the parents can- 
not produce great mentalities unless the planetary 
forces are in harmony with theirs. The degree of 
mental powers possessed by the parents figures large- 
ly in this matter. The highly intellectual Caucas- 
ian under the same condition and circumstances 
will produce a higher type of manhood than the low- 
er orders of mankind ; but this very intellectual Cau- 
casian does not at all times produce his own equal 
while this very low order of mankind sometimes 



produces his own superior. For this freak in nature 
no explanation has ever been given and none can be 
adduced other than is herein stated. 

The brain is the seat of the nervous system. The 
nerves of the Caucasian are of a much finer texture 
then the nerves of the semi-civilized man, therefore, 
the electrical currents from the planetary system ef- 
fects the nerves of the Caucasian much quicker then 
it does the dull nerves of the unrefined tribes ; to il- 
lustrate, steel is a better conductor of electricity than 
iron because of its fineness and density. It is not 
possible to charge poorer metals with magnetism 
sufficiently to attract even a cambric needle, while 
a fine quality of steel when well charged will sup- 
port proportionally a heavy body ; now the quality 
of the brain gives the mental strength because of its 
ability to receive the electric current which excites 
it into action. 

The quality of the brain is produced by concen- 
trating the fine mental powers of male and female in 
a child under the most favorable planetary influen- 
ces. 

If the male and female are of the highest caste and 
the birth takes place under the most favorable stel- 
lar influences then will the child possess a superior 
quality of brain, also, an intellect superior to its par- 
ents ; but the question might be asked are not chil- 



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dren often born under 'these influences? The ans- 
wer is they are but not of parents of the highest tpye. 
But few children are born of parents of refined - taste 
and culture under the most favorable stellar influ- 
ences ; when this is the case then a great mind is the 
result. These are accidental births and these births 
produce the motive power that keeps the wheels of 
progress in motion. If the siderial influences were 
such that a great mind could be produced at any 
time, the human family would progress much faster 
than it does but on the contrary nature rarely offers 
these opportunities to parents, therefore, the produc- 
tion of a great mind is purely accidental. 

If husbands and wives were mated from a fitness to 
each other taken from an astrological standpoint and 
the stellar laws always observed for the promotion of 
the race scarce one half century would pass away till 
our ordinary intelligence would be considered gross 
ignorance and the intellectual giants of to-day would 
dwindle away into mere pigmy s and the brightest 
intellectual lights of those days would pale the 
brightest light that ever shown. If this is not true 
then man has arrived at the zenith of his perfection. 
Let me illustrate further : take the common Ameri- 
can Indian whose brain is coarse and dull — take the 
brightest child of the tribe, educate him and keep 
him in the best circles of society till he is grown to 



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manhood and he will not compare favorably intel- 
lectually with the common Caucasian. Then take 
a pair of them, male and female, and keep them un- 
der the aforesaid circumstances and under the stel- 
lar laws for the promotion of the intellectual facul- 
ties in their children for two generations and a great 
improvement will be noticed. I am satisfied that all 
will agree with me on that point but, perhaps, some 
will want to credit all the improvement to the civil- 
ized life, this, of course, will have its effect, but all 
the offspring would not be equal to their parents un- 
less these laws were observed, and then some of them 
would be superior to their parents. The same rule 
applies to all nations and tribes, 

The reason that civilized life effect the offspring 
is this, that the mental organs of the mother that are 
inflamed the most during gestation develops the cor- 
responding organs in the child. Now if the mother 
is surrounded by refined and in intellectual society 
then her intellectual organs are kept in lively action 
when she is not contending with adverse stellar ele- 
ments, therefore the effect would be far better than 
though her society was gross and unrefined. Then 
at birth nature would select a time to suit the form- 
er condition, be they good or bad, if the surround- 
ings were good then a good child might be expected. 
Vice Versa. 



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The subject of reproduction has been discussed for 
time immemorial in hopes of elevating the human 
family to a higher intellectual and moral plane ; but 
failure has been written on the brow of every would 
be reformer, not for the want of ability or energy for 
this they have had in superabundance, but for the 
lack of a knowledge of the sublime laws that con- 
trols this very energetic and enterprising business. 
The trouble with this so called reformer was that 
they attributed all the difference in children of the 
same parents to antenatal causes instead of seeking 
out some foreign agency by which to explain these 
wonderful differences. It always has been a mys- 
tery why children of the same parents should differ 
so widely mentally, morally and physically; but 
they do and the fact of a foreign agency in the mat- 
ter cannot be denied inasmuch as children of the 
same flesh and blood produced under similar cir- 
cumstances are very unlike and what is more strik- 
ing to the close observer is that no father ever pro- 
due. <i his own counterpart; the same can also be 
Said of the mother 

Now if the antenatal influences controls the off- 
spring; oughl not childreD sometimes, at least, be 
jusl like their parents. Again if the antenatal in- 
fluences govern the mental and physical condition 



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of the children then young persons full of life and 
Vigor ought to produce children with the brigthest 
intellects and the strongest constitution ; if this rule 
still holds good then the last child of an aged coup- 
le would be intellectualy dull and physically weak, 
which is not the case in either instance as every one 
knows. Again if the idea of antenatal influence is 
correct why do not children of healthy parents all 
live to a ripe old age and children of consumptive 
parents all die of consumption? But instead their 
diseases vary as greatly as do their intellects. 

Thus we see that the antenatal influences are not 
so powerful when figured down to a focus, as one 
would very naturally suppose. Once more, what 
causes the eyes of one child to be blue another black 
and the third grey, when there are only two colors 
at most in the eyes of the parents? 

No this antenatal theory will not do; the tru'e 
cause is in the stellar influences, they alone explain 
all things pertaining to the differentiation of the 
human germ, the formation and building up of the 
child. They alone explain why a child sometimes 
resembles the father, sometimes the mother and oc- 
casionally neither. 

Now while I depreciate many of the so called an- 
tenatal causes I must admit that they have indirect- 



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ly a great deal to do with forming the human or- 
ganism. When I say indirectly I mean that the 
stellar influences are primary and the human are 
secondary laws. Hence the secondary must neces- 
sarily be subjected to the primary. Therefore, I 
say, that from the quickening of the germ till the 
birth the child is depending, through the medium 
of the mother, on the stellar worlds for strength atid 
vitality but after birth it depends directly on the 
planetary system for vital forces. 

Xow I shall endeavor to show cause for the vari- 
ous formations and developments in children of the 
same parents. 

The human body is composed of spiritual and 
material elements. The visible body, or material 
man, is composed of earthy matter and is, therefore, 
of mundane origin, but the invisible, the magnetic 
or spiritual man is derived from the stellar orbs and 
is, therefore, of heavenly origin. The spiritual or 
magnetic element is the life sustaining principle of 
the body. Now the separate germs of the parents 
are composed of all the elements of their bodies and 
are perfect in all their parts as the parents are per- 
fect at the time of conception then when united- and 
quickened and the process of differentiation takes 
place, all things being equal, the child partakes 
equally of the father's and mother's elements; but 



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now comes the question: Do these elements follow 
the child in the same ratio during its growth and 
development till birth? Answer, not necessarily so, 
inasmuch as it feeds on exactly the same spiritual 
or vital food that the parents do ; thus if the father, 
during the period of gestation, extracts from the at- 
mosphere elements harmonious to his own, then his 
part of the germ will extract the same because it is 
yet a part of the sire and loses none of its relation- 
ship by being separated from him, for the spiritual 
child cannot be separated from the spiritual parents 
till after birth, when it becomes an independent liv- 
ing soul and, further, if the father receives magnet- 
ism harmonious to his own and the mother does not 
then will his element in the foetus gain supremacy 
and the child will resemble the father but suppo- 
sing at the time of conception and during gestation 
the mother is receiving a rich supply of harmonious 
magnetism and the father is contending with evil 
spirits then will the mother's element gain the as- 
cendancy in the foetus and the child will grow to 
the likeness of the mother; and again supposing at 
the time of conception and during all the period of 
gestation both father and mother are contending 
with adverse stellar elements then the child will re- 
semble neither but be inferior to both : and again if 
both father and mother during this period are un- 
der beneficent influence and the planets are in a posi- 



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tion to produce a superior development then will the 
child be superior to both parents. The reason of 
this is that the parents are receiving elements for- 
eign to their own and transmitting the same to the 
unborn child; therefore, the child is different from 
its parents but like them at the time of its birth. I 
will explain further, these elements are inhaled into 
the mother's lungs then by the force of attraction 
the elements in the blood gather like elements from 
the atmosphere, which are conducted by the blood 
to all parts of the body. Now the blood of the 
mother in her natural state receives only those ele- 
ments conducive to her own nature but when the 
father's elements are infused into the mother's sys- 
tem then her blood receives from the lungs ele- 
ments akin to both parents and transmits the same 
to the unborn child and thus it expands to the spir- 
it form of father or mother or both or neither. 

The form of the child is outlined by the spirit and 
fill out by the material ; therefore if the spirit form 
is awkward and full of deformities then will the ma- 
terial build to those outlines. 

This spirit is produced in the child by the effect 
of the stellar element that controls the parents dur- 
ing gestation ; if the elements are inharmonious to 
the parents this will cause a disturbance by check- 



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ing the spirit growth which arrests the marterial 
growth in the foetus causing a weakness if not a de- 
formity in some part of the mind or body or both. 

Now for fear that some will not get the full force 
of my argument I will offer an illustration not only 
to prove my position but to show that " truth is 
stranger than fiction." 

Passing into the vegetable kingdom we will first 
examine the turnip, beet and onion from whence do 
they get their form, flavors and colors and why are 
they not all alike and what elements in nature 
causes their different formations? The turnip is flat 
and sweet, the beet is long and variegated while the 
onion is built of layers and has a strong burning 
flavor. Again I ask why these differences when 
they all grew in the same soil and perhaps touching 
each other? Who dare say that all these variations 
come from the soil or that dame nature is subtle 
enough to manufacture these and thousands of other 
forms and flavors and colors out of the same ele- 
ments? 

No, these elements come from the stellar worlds, 
and each planet has a spirit of its own hidden in 
the little germ and that " spirit form is retained 
throughout the growth of the plant. As the spirit 
grows by extracting . from the atmosphere elements 
peculiar to itself so does the material build to those 



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outlines. Now cut away the leaves of the plant and 
the growth is arrested if not wholly destroyed; for 
in cutting away the leaves of the plant the spirit 
supply is cut off; with out this heavenly spirit noth- 
ing can flourish. 

Yes these elements are sufficient to produce all the 
phenomena we find in nature when we consider that 
we live in a system surrounded by hundreds of fix- 
ed stars shedding their magnetism on our earth, then 
a new light dawns upon our minds and when we 
consider furthqr that the leaves bear the same rela- 
tion to the plant that the lungs do to the human 
body we can better understand their power to ex- 
tract from nature elements unknown to our most ex- 
perienced chemist. 

If any doubt the stellar laws controlling the veg- 
etable kingdom let him explain why two or more 
apples can grow on the same limb of a tree and bear 
no resemblance to each other also let him explain 
how it is that the corn on two stalks one produced 
from a white grain the other from a yellow one can 
be changed into the same variety by removing the tas- 
sel from one stalk. Yet it can and, further, he may 
tell why the fir and pine produce pitch and the ma- 
ple sprup when they grow side by side. After this 
explanation he may tell from whence comes the dif- 
ferent forms, flavors and colors of the blackberry, 



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raspberry, currant and gooseberry to say nothing of 
the hundreds of other berries whose elements are 
equally as hard to explain. 

If the planetary laws do not govern the animal 
kingdom then the next skeptical Theophilus may 
tell us how it is that ground grain alone fed to a 
cow will produce beef and tallow when the same 
kind of feed fed to a hog will produce pork and lard. 
Inasmuch as a revelation of the foregoing facts will 
be sufficient to overthrow or establish the arguments 
herein presented I will not press him further to ex- 
plain the mutiplicity of variation found in the king- 
dom of fruits, nor will I demand the cause for the 
different colors found in the watermelons. The fact 
is that these mysterious things will be traced to a stel- 
lar origin ; that each species of fruit will be found to 
have been produced under certain specific stellar in- 
fluences at a stated time in the creation of the world 
and so long as this species did not come in contact 
with a kindred production it remained pure because 
it consumed only its original stellar element but af- 
ter the development of a kindred fruit then the pro- 
cess of amalgamation commence . This law holds 
good with all the vegetable an^ animal kingdoms. 
This is the cause of so many dif nt tribes and na- 
tionalities of people. So long he blood is kept 
pure by consuming the original ments the change 
in tribes and nations progress - ' slowly but mix- 



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ing the blood of tribes possessing different magnetic 
forces combine the attractive power of the two in 
one. This doubles the amount of spirit or planet- 
ary forces in the person and causes a superior men- 
tal development. 

The pollen of all vegetable life is the magnet that 
attracts the stellar elements or the spirit life of the 
fruit; without the pollen there can be no impregna- 
tion, hence no attraction, therefore no spirit or fruit 
because the earth supplies only the material the form,, 
flavor and color comes from the stellar worlds and 
further without this stellar element there can be no 
colors inasmuch as all colors of earth comes from the 
stars. 

The rainbow is another evidence of siderial colors. 
The clouds by forming a certain position to the sun 
light reflects the magnetic colors so forceably that it 
makes it possible to see the electric lights in all their 
varied hues. It also shows that the electrical 
elements are not a homogeneous mess but distinct 
and separate. Earth has no colors of its own unless 
possessing elements unknown to all other planets 
and fixed stars as color only shows the presence of 
some chemical substance. 

There are twelve signs of the zodiac, viz.: Aries, 
Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, 
Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces; and all 



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persons must be born under the direct influence of 
two of these signs regardless of the influential plan- 
ets which are 8 in number, viz.: Uranus, Saturn, Ju- 
piter, Mars, Sun, Moon, Venus and Mercury. Each 
of the above signs and planets possess one or more 
elements. Now if all the planets are out of their 
dignities and weak by relative position then the per- 
son so born will be without ability or success in any 
sphere of life. But one born at a time when all the 
planets are strong in local and relative position he 
excels in all undertakings and is a stranger to the 
word fail. 

Now the, position of the planets can be ascertained 
nine months ahead of time and the birth governed 
to suit the planetary influence. This makes parents 
wholly responsible for the misfortune of their chil- 
dren. 

This is only the outlines of a gigantic subject that 
will require time and hard study to perfect. It is 
new and, to some extent, may be proven theoretical. 
But so true as we live, the stars at the time of birth 
point out the path of life, let it be straight or crook- 
ed, smooth or stony the way marks are always to 
be found ; and so sure as the stars shine in heaven, 
to a great extent, parents hold within their hands 
the destiny of their unborn children and no parents, 
who value the lives and prosperity of their children, 



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will hereafter allow them to be born by chance; no 
matter what it may cost they had better pay $100 to 
have a child born able to take care of itself than to 
leave it 810,000 with only the ability to squander it. 
They had better pay 8100 to prevent the birth of a 
delicate sickly child than to pay S500 to have it 
doctored and lose it at last, or worse live a life of 
suffering and a burden to its friends. It would be 
better to pay 8500 for a child that 81000 will edu- 
cate than to have one born for nothing that could 
not be educated at any price and it would be a thou- 
sand times better that a child should not be born 
at all then to be confined in the mad house, lodged 
in the penitentiary, die with a rope around his neck 
or worse live a life of shame and die in the house of 
illfame; love and virtue, vice and passion are all 
transplanted in the mind from the gardens of God 
through the medium of the parents and if they 
pluck the intellect in the fullness of its strength and 
beauty and transplant it in the minds of their off- 
spring it will shine like the golden grain of harvest 
and yield 50 or 100, yea 500 fold of mental and 
moral worth that shall cast an immortal lustre on 
this earth and vie with, the eternal perfections in the 
college of God. 



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